Sally Kellerman was born on June 2 1937 in Long Beach, California. Her family moved to San Fernando Valley when she was in fifth grade at school. It was when she was a sophomore in high school that her family moved to Park La Brea, Los Angeles. After graduating from Hollywood High School, Miss Kellerman attended Los Angeles City College where she took Jeff Corey's acting class. While at Los Angeles City College she appeared in Jeff Corey's production of Look Back in Anger. She later joined Actors Studio West. She made her film debut in 1957 in Reform School Girl (1957). She made her television debut in an episode of Playhouse 90 in 1959 and guest starred on an episode of Bachelor Father in 1960.
Sally Kellerman appeared frequently on television in the Sixties. Among her guest appearances was playing Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in the second Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before." She also guest starred on the shows Lock Up; Surfside 6; Cheyenne; The Twilight Zone; I'm Dickens, He's Fenster; The Lloyd Bridges Show, The adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; My Three Sons; The Outer Limits; The Greatest Show on Earth; Slattery's People; Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre; 12 O' Clock High; The Rouges, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; Kraft Suspense Theatre; Seaway; Ben Casey; A Man Called Shenandoah; The Legends of Jesse James; Bonanza; I Spy; That Girl; T.H.E. Cat; Tarzan; Insight; Coronet Blue; Dundee and the Culhane; The Invaders; Premiere; IT Takes a Thief; Hawaii Five-O, and Mannix. She played Major Houlihan in the movie M*A*S*H (1970, for which she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She also appeared in the movies Hands of a Stranger (1962), The Third Day (1965), The Lollipop Cover (1965), The Boston Strangler (1968), The April Fools (1969), and Brewster McCloud (1970).
In the Seventies Miss Kellerman appeared in the movies Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972), A Reflection of Fear (1972), Slither (1973), Lost Horizon (1973), Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), The Big Bus (1976), Welcome to L.A. (1976), A Little Romance (1979), Foxes (1980), It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980), Serial (1980), Loving Couples (1980), and Head On (1980). She was the voice of The Seal in the animated film The Mouse and His Child (1977). On television she appeared in the mini-series Centennial. She guest starred on Great Performances.
In the Eighties Sally Kellerman guest starred on the TV shows Faerie Tale Theatre, CBS Children's Mystery Theatre, Hotel, Tall Tales & Legends, CBS Summer Playhouse, and Evening Shade. She appeared in the movies Moving Violations (1985), KGB: The Secret War (1985), Back to School (1986), That's Life! (1986), Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986), Three for the Road (1987), Someone to Love (1987), You Can't Hurry Love (1988), All's Fair (1989), Limit Up (1989), and The Secret of the Ice Cave (1989).
In the Nineties Sally Kellerman was a regular on the short-lived TV series 2000 Malibu Road. She guest starred on the shows Dinosaurs; Murder, She Wrote; Dream On; Burke's Law; High Society; The Naked Truth; Touched by an Angel; Ink; Gun; Diagnosis Murder; Columbo; and The Norm Show. Sally Kellerman appeared as herself in the movie The Player (1992) and also appeared in the movies Doppleganger (1993), Younger and Younger (1993), Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994), Ready to Wear (1994), It's My Party (1996), The Maze (1997), The Lay of the Land (1997), and American Virgin (1999).
In the Naughts Miss Kellerman guest starred on the TV shows In-Laws, Providence, and Masters of Science Fiction. She appeared in the movies Women of the Night (2001), Open House (2004), The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club (2005), and I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). In the Teens Sally Kellerman was a regular on the TV shows Chemistry, Unsupervised, The Young and the Restless, Maron, and Decker. She guest starred on the shows Law & Order: Los Angeles, 90210, Workaholics, The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, High School USA!, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and Difficult People.
Sally Kellerman was an incredible actress. Her performance was Major Houlihan in M*A*S*H was truly worthy of an Oscar nomination. In Brewster McCloud she played the mysterious woman Louise, giving another great performance. Her performances on television were no less impressive. She was fantastic as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, the psychiatrist who develops psionic abilities in Star Trek's second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before."In the humorous Bonanza episode "A Dollar's Worth of Trouble" she excelled as a blonde who causes trouble for Hoss. In the Centennial she did well as Lise Bockweiss, a Bavarian immigrant. Sally Kellerman was a versatile actress who could perform both comedy and drama equally well.
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